Apparatus for balling warps



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

I P. S. FRYE, & E. WADE.

APPARATUS FOR BALLING WARPS.

No. 373,180. Patented Nov. 15, 1887-.

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FREDERICK S. FRYE AND EDWARD WADE, OF LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPARATUS FOR BALLI NG WARPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,180, dated November 15, 1887.

Application filed October 16, 1886. Serial No. 216,456.

To aZZ whom it may concern/.2

Be it known that we, FREDERICK S. FRYE and EDWARD WADE, citizens of the United States, residing at Lawrence, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Bailing Warps; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. 1

This invention relates to balling-machines, so called, and particularly that class employed in making up warps.

The said invention consists, chiefly, in the combination of a pulley and its support with a ball-shaft, means for imparting motion to said shaft, acreel orstand, and a guide through which the warp-threads from the spools of the creel and the warp-threads from a previously- Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively a side and front elevation of the intermediary post.

At A is represented the stand, which'contains the spools a a, the individual warp ends from which are properly distributed and passed through the reeds b I) over and about the intermediate rollers, l 2 3, mounted in the standards B B, which constitute the warp-guiding devices C as an entirety. Thence the warp ends are passed to a vertical post, D, securely affixed to the floor centrally of and in front of the warping-machine, the top of said post being surmounted by a condensing-tube, c, which is open at the top and provided with curved lips d d to permit of ready removal (No model.)

from or introduction of the warp ends from or within said tube. By means of this tube the various warp ends emanating from the spools and which pass through the warp-guides are converged and massed to form the warp, so called. (Shown at E.) Below the condensing-tube c, in vertical alignment therewith and secured likewise to said post D, is a guide or pulley, e, suitably journaled and disposed upon the post in front of a longitudinal aperture, F, formed in the latter. The said post, therefore constitutes a support for said pulley. This pulley and aperture cooperate to permit the direction of the warp passing through the post to be reversed and changed, for purposes hereinafter described. From the condensing-tube c the warp ends, now in a compact body and forming the warp as an entirety, are passed to the winding apparatus. This latter is shown as composed of a frame, G, resting upon twin standards or housings H H Longitudinally disposed and in horizontal adjustment with each other are two rollers, I I, while resting upon the latter and axially aligned therewithis a winding-shaft, J, upon which is formed the ball. Said shaft is journaled in slotted standards K K, and thereby is capable of vertical movement caused by the continued and gradual increase in the size of the ball L, due to the laying of the warp thereon. Furthermore, said slots answer a second purpose-that is, they permit of ready removal of the ball from the machine when it is so desired. The requisite tension, and consequently the compactness with which the warp is laid upon the winding-beam, is regulated by means of anti-friction rolls ff, which rest upon each end of the ball-shaft. Said rolls are secured in frames M M, through the lower parts of which are inserted straps g g, and these latter connect with levers N N weighted, and pivoted to brackets affixed upon the standards H H. Rotary movement of the ball-shaft or winding-beam is effected by means of the rollers I I, mounted upon shafts i z, to the extremities of which are affixed gears h h, meshing with the gears j k. These latter are disposed upon the main shaft 1, operated by the pulley 0, actively induced by some prime motor.

In the formation of the ball, and to enable the warp ends or warp E as it passes on and about the winding-beam to reciprocate or traverse the length of the beam, and thus lay the said warp on the ball evenly from one end to the other, we have provided a stationary guide-rod, P, fixed in the frame G, and which is to support a warp guide, Q, consisting in the present instance of a sleeve provided with a vertical arm bifurcated at its end, and through which the warp is passed as it travels onward in the act of being laid upon the beam to form the ball. Right line reciprocations or traverses of this guide Q are effected by means of a vertically-disposed downwardlyprojecting prong or arm, which successively engages two oppositelyeut spiral slots in the periphery of theshaft It. The latter is rotated by means of a gear mounted upon it and meshing with a similar gear upon the main shaft Z. The former gear is marked to, and the latter gear is' marked 10.

The mechanism above described for causing traverses of the guide Q is well known, and has long been employed in winding mechanisms of various kinds.

By means of the above apparatus a ball of any diameter and containing any number of warp ends may be produced from one set of spools.

The operation is as follows: Presuming the warp E contains six hundred warp ends, and that the desired warp shall contain twelve hundred warp ends, we proceed as follows: \Vhen the requisite length of warp has been laid upon the windiugshaft to form the ball L, the entire apparatus is stopped. The ball L is now removed and placed beneath the machine, and is now designated as L and rests upon a carriage, S, preferably mounted in guides and movable upon the floor. The warp E, without being cut, is now doubled, and the end so formed is entered in the direction of arrow 1, Fig. 3, through the aperture F, when the warp is passed about and around the pulley 6, preferably grooved; thence it is returned and secured to an empty winding-shaft, J. Proper tension upon the ball Lis now secured vby a weighted brake-beain, T, pivoted to and again set in motion a warp, L containing twelve hundred warp ends, is now produced, and is laid upon the windingshaft J in the form ofa ball. One-half of these ends emanate from the warp-guides and stand of creels while the other half are obtained from the ball L, now in process of unwinding, the warp passing outwardly therefrom to the pulley 6, about which it passes, whereby the direction in its path of travel is changed and it is returned to merge and unite with the warp coming from the creels, thereby forming an integral compact warp in the present instance of double the number of warp ends as there are creels in the stand.

If necessary, the number of warp ends may be increased to any desired extent by the employment of one or more balls to be unwound after the manner above described and to be united with the warp emerging from the warpguides. Moreover, by the employment of the groove-pulley c and post D the ball L can be snugly placed beneath the winding-machine, floor-space is ecouomized, and the mechanism for operating said ball is near at hand and can easily and readily be applied thereto.

\Ve claim- 1. The combination of a pulley and its support with a ball-shaft, means for imparting motion to said shaft. a creel or stand, and a guide through which the warp-threads from the spools of the creel and the warp-threads "from a previously -wound ball first passed around said pulley may pass together, said pulley serving to reverse the direction of the warp threads coming from said previouslywound ball, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of postD and the pulley c, and condensing-tube c, mounted thereon, with the guide Q, the spool-carrying shafts J S, and means for rotating the former and supporting the latter shaft. substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK S. FRYE. EDWARD WADE.

Vitnesses: I

J AMES MURPHY, JOHN S. GILE. 

